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Lot 1538 |
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1935 (17-22 Apr.) Survey Flight No. 1, San Francisco - Hawaii and return, round trip cover bearing both P.A.A. cachets, signed by the crew, including Fred Noonan, Amelia Earhart's navigator on her ill-fated final flight; some abrasion at top, otherwise Very Fine.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 1539 |
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1935 (18 Jun.) Survey Flight No. 2, Honolulu to Midway Island, "Gooney Bird" cachet on cover, prepared by Karl Lueder, Midway station manager, Very Fine.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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Lot 1540 |
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1935 (13-22 Aug.) Survey Flight No. 3, Honolulu - Midway - Wake and return, company cover with blue cachet signed by Capt. Sullivan, Very Fine.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 1541 |
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1935, Honolulu - Midway - Wake and return, company cover as previous but without cachet, Very Fine.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 1542 |
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1935 (20-22 Aug.) Wake Island - Midway - Honolulu, cover bearing Wake-California "chain" cachet, 3¢ stamp cancelled Pearl Harbor, Aug. 13; slight abrasion in center, otherwise Very Fine.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 1543 |
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1935 (5-24 Oct.) Surrey Flights No. 4, San Francisco - Guam - San Francisco, round trip cover with both cachets, Very Fine.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 1544 |
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1935 (5-24 Oct.) Group of five different, San Francisco-Guam, Honolulu-Guam, Guam-Honolulu, Guam-San Francisco and San Francisco-Guam-San Francisco roundtrip; all with appropriate cachets, Fine to Very Fine.
Estimate 400 - 600
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Lot 1545 |
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1935 (ca. 8 Mar.) Cavite, P.I. - Wake Island, size 10 envelope with black Wake Island cachet, carried by Lt. J.G. Johnson from Cavite over Wake Island but not to Honolulu, Philippines stamps cancelled Manila, Feb 25, U.S. stamps Pearl Harbor, Mar. 15 where the cover was posted to Johnson aboard the U.S.S. Nitro in Guam, Fine to Very Fine.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 1546 |
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1935 (14-17 Aug.) Midway Island to Wake Island, cover bearing oval Midway-Wake cachet, handstamped "Midway/Aug 16, 1935" with manuscript "6:00A.M.", manuscript "Received Wake Island, Aug 17, 1935, 1:30P.M.", 2¢ stamp cancelled Honolulu, Aug 23, Very Fine.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 1547 |
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1935 (16-20 Aug.) Midway - Wake - Midway, size 10 envelope with "Midway-Wake" and "Wake-California" cachets, handstamped and manuscript dates and times, 3¢ stamp (damaged) cancelled Honolulu, Aug. 23, sent by navigator, Fred Noonan to his wife in Berkeley, California (manuscript dates are in Noonan's hand); repaired tear lower right corner, otherwise Very Fine and rare.
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000
A NEWLY DISCOVERED EXAMPLE OF WHICH ONLY THREE WERE PREVIOUSLY RECORDED.
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Lot 1548 |
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1935 (20-22 Aug.) Survey Flight No. 3, Wake - Honolulu, size 10 envelope with Wake Island cachet prepared by C.H. Schildhauer, P.A.A. station manager at Alameda, Calif.; brownish stain at lower right, Fine.
Estimate 400 - 600
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Lot 1549 |
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1935 (10-19 Oct.) Honolulu - Guam - Honolulu, dual cacheted cover, Very Fine.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 1550 |
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1935 (4 Sept.) Canto Island to Honolulu, cacheted cover, flown but not posted with printed endorsement signed by Airways Supt., Very Fine.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 1551 |
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1935 (4 Sept.) Canto Island to Honolulu, black Canton Island cachet, 3¢ stamp cancelled Honolulu, Sept. 5, couple vertical file folds, Fine to Very Fine.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 1552 |
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Pan-American Airways Pacific Survey flights, balance of mounted collection including photos (one a 3x5 signed photo of Capt. Sullivan), two 1935 covers (San Francisco-Honolulu and Honolulu-San Francisco) and eleven 1937 South Pacific covers including Wellington-S.F. cancelled 27 Dec. (scarce date), a registered cover to Canada flown Auck.-S.F. (28 Dec) bearing an N.Z. 4sh postal fiscal, an Auck.-Pago-Pago cover cancelled 31 Dec. (another scarce date), a postcard Auck.-Honolulu, 28 Dec., and two size 10 covers, Auck.-Pago-Pago and Auck.-S.F., with a scarce handstamped double-lined boxed cachet reading "First Air Mail Flights, Pan American Airways, New Zealand to United States of America," the latter signed by Capt. Musick, no doubt one of the last covers he signed, as he and his crew were killed on the return flight to New Zealand. A fascinating group.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 1553 |
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1962 Flown "Stargazer" stratospheric cover, endorsed "13-14 Dec '62 (altitude) 82,000" and signed by pilot J.W. Kittinger and co-pilot Wm. C. White, cachet handpainted by artist William Numeroff who has addressed the cover to himself, franked with a 7¢ Jupiter airmail cancelled Alamagordo, NM, Dec 15, Very Fine and rare. Only a few covers are known from this flight and only one other with Numeroff's artwork.
Estimate 400 - 600
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Lot 1554 |
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2¢ Post Office (O48), tied by quartered cork cancellation duplexed with indistinct "Washington, D.C. Jun 5" c.d.s. on P.O. Dept. envelope to Nori, Mich.; extra gum around perfs, Fine and scarce.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 1555 |
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Charleston, S.C., Honour's City Express, 1851-58, 2¢ black on bluish (4LB8), tied by manuscript on cover front to Augusta, Ga. bearing 3¢ dull red (11) large margins including left straddle, in at bottom, tied by red grid cancellation, "Charleston, S.C. Jul 17" origin c.d.s., docketing receipt "17 July 1851", Fine.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 1556 |
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Wells Fargo & Co., 1861, $1 red, front hoof missing (143L3 var.), position 9R, large margins including part of above stamp, except just clear at left, attractive blue Pony Express San Francisco running pony oval handstamp, Very Fine.
Scott $6,000
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Lot 1557 |
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1891 (Jan. 3) Washington, D.C. to Sweden, 2¢ International postal card (UX6) cancelled by rare Washington, D.C. Groth-Constantine machine cancellation (Type 2b), U.S. Commission Fish & Fisheries manuscript return address, Very Fine. No foreign destinations with this cancel type were illustrated in the Morris-Payne book.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 1558 |
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1899 (Jun. 24) Milwaukee, Wis. to Berlin, Germany, pioneer 1¢ postal card (UX14) bearing 1¢ Bureau tied by Milwaukee machine cancellation, Message side shows an all-over multicolored greetings design from Pabst Breweries, German (7.4) arrival, Very fine.
Estimate 200 - 300
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